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Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. And a trio of American tech companies raised a raft of capital as last week concluded. Carta put together $500 million in a huge deal, as Chime raised $750 million.
versus-China battle but could have a third hub, or series of hubs, in the mix. TechCrunch covered Unit in the middle of last year when it raised more than $50 million in a single round. The headline? How was Voltron able to raise so much money, so quickly? It just raised $4 million; let’s see if it catches on.
Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Despite raising far less than it had once wanted, the company’s Hong Kong IPO is now in the books, and doing well as a trading equity. And AIMMO raised $12 million in a Series A.
Hello, and welcome to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Notably, Deel and Brex both raised mega-rounds just six months after raising mega-rounds. And have a good time. We naturally kicked off with news that Facebook intends to rebrand itself.
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Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Over in China, a country that we’ve not covered enough lately, Laiye raised $50 million more. It hit 20x growth in revenue last year, and recently raised at a $1.25 billion valuation.
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As of late last month, there were more than 300 ships in China waiting to load up and head to the U.S., million Series A funding round from Insight Partners, WIN, Decent Capital, Fourth Realm, Neo and Pear, which brings the startup’s total raised to $17.5 Cargomatic’s Weston LaBar told NPR’s Marketplace.
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